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3.23. Cover Images

Last Updated 11/03/2023


Cover Images from Open Library

All the cover images that are not manually uploaded in Evergreen come from Open Library, which is an open-source initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Other projects include the Wayback Machine, archive.org and archive-it.org.

Cover images are based on the ISBN in the bibliographic record. Evergreen currently only uses the first ISBN to search Open Library. Some covers may be missing for some ISBNs. Images are updated by registered Open Library users and by bots and may sometimes contain incorrect images.

The only way to add or correct the image (as it appears in the NC Cardinal catalog) is to do so by changing which is the first ISBN in a bib record (if an image for that ISBN already exists in Open Library) or by adding or editing the image in Open Library. You can click on the link and follow the instructions after creating a free account. It may take up to 24 hours for Open Library to update to the new image and for the correct image to show in the catalog. 

 

Book covers upload window

* Cover images may only be uploaded to Evergreen when using the new catalog display. The traditional catalog does not provide staff with the upload functionality. 

 

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